Congress misses Biden's police reform deadline, but Cory Booker says "a lot of progress was made" over weekend
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Senator Cory Booker said on Tuesday he is "very hopeful" about the bipartisan effort to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, despite lawmakers failing to meet President Joe Biden's May 25 deadline for the legislation.
"We worked through the weekend, a lot of progress was made, and I'm very hopeful. We still have a ways to go, but I'm hoping it's a matter of weeks, not months," Booker said on CBSN.Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.